Why the Music Industry Hates Guitar Hero

According to the article "Why the Music Industry Hates Guitar Hero" on page 168-169 in Argument!  the music industry is very upset that they are not making as much money as they wish to on video games. Edgar Bronfman, CEO of Warner Music Group believes that the Warner artists should be receiving more money and he threatens that they will not license any more to the games if they do not start to see a pay increase. The football league collects almost thirty percent of Madden sells (Howe). Brofman seems upset about that and will not allow people to step all over him. Not everyone is upset about the video games using songs, Aerosmith has amazing income from Guitar Hero. They earned more from Guitar Hero than on an album that they produced (Howe).  Bronfman seems like he will never change and will continue to fight until the end.

Guitar Hero was very popular. The music department should get a percentage of the profits. They are asking for too much, if they already licensed some songs for the games and they made an agreement then it should just be stuck as is. If the music company did not realized how popular the game would be it is the music company's fault. They make enough money as it is, there is no need to be greedy. But there are some band that are making money and even small new bands getting there name out there on the games and that will help support there record sells. Guitar Hero is a good way to expand a persons music, you hear songs that you won't usually listen to. Not all of the music industry hates the video games there are just many steps to take to make everyone happy.